12 Oct 2024

Tim Winton: the reality of climate inaction is science fiction

From Saturday Morning, 8:10 am on 12 October 2024

Photo: Penguin RandomHouse

Australian "Living Treasure" Tim Winton's new novel Juice is a dystopian thriller mapping out a future so devastated by climate catastrophe it's near unbearable.

Hot winters, suffocating ash, ice storms, and fatal summers force characters underground in a world which has become largely uninhabitable.

He has won the Miles Franklin Award four times and has been nominated twice for the Booker Prize.

Perlina spoke to him about his 40-year literary career which includes more than 30 novels, short story collections, non-fiction and plays.